A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo Language
Author: Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher: Utopia
Published: 1995-12
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ISBN-13: 9781555000622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher: Utopia
Published: 1995-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781555000622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Irene Reed
Publisher: [Fairbanks] : Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Linguistic analysis of the western Eskimo language.
Author: Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A grammer of the Yupik or Yuit language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and in Siberia, designed for teaching both speakers and non-speakers.
Author: Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 1712
ISBN-13: 311027857X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume is a major grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY). It is the culmination of the author's linguistic studies done in Alaska and elsewhere since around 1960, with assistance of many native speakers. Central Alaskan Yupik is currently the most vigorous of the nineteen remaining Native Alaskan languages. Descriptive in nature, extensive and deep, this grammar is of typological and of ethnological/anthropological interest. Given the severely endangered state of the language, this much of descriptive linguistic material is without comparison in the field.
Author: Michael Fortescue
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 960
ISBN-13: 0191506192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.
Author: Willem Joseph de Reuse
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The study provides a description of the verbal derivational suffixation, postinflectional derivation, enclitics, and particles of the Central Siberian Yupik Eskimo language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and on the coast of Chukotka, in the Soviet Union. It also shows how these elements participate in a network of four tightly-knit grammatical susbsystems (verbal derivational suffixation; discourse enclitics; inflectional verbs moods; and adverbial and conjunctional particles borrowed from Chukchi, a neighboring Paleo-Siberian language), presents implications of the relationships among these subsystems for the theory of autolexical syntax and the theory of language change (particularly concerning contact-induced morphological and syntactic change in a polysynthetic language), and documents the history and sociolinguistics of grammatical and lexical influence of Chukchi on the Eskimo and Bering Sea area. (MSE)
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Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 722
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialects. Over these decades, Jacobson has combed through records of explorers, linguists, missionaries, and anyone who has come in contact with the actively migratory Yup'ik people. Combined with information from native Yup'ik speakers, that research has led to a richly detailed dictionary that covers the entire language and all its dialects. The dictionary also offers sections on Yup'ik spelling, early vocabulary, demonstrative words, and important intersections of Yup'ik language and culture such as the kayak, dogsled, parka, and old-style dwellings.
Author: Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991-07-09
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0226685349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."
Author: Marc-Antoine Mahieu
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-04-08
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9027289379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the Eskaleut languages typologically in general linguistic terms, particularly with regard to polysynthesis. The degree of variation from more to less polysynthesis is evaluated within Eskaleut (Inuit-Yupik vs. Aleut), even in previously insufficiently explored domains such as pragmatics and use in context – including language contact and learning situations – and over typologically related language families such as Athabascan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Iroquoian, Uralic, and Wakashan.